Be Careful What You Wish For: Colorado's Adventure with Direct Democracy - Perk Series

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In the early 1900s, Colorado, along with many other states, adopted what seemed at the time to be wonderful new populist political innovations — the initiative, referendum, recall. The advertised purpose was to wrest government from the grip of crooks in legislatures, the lobby and big business, and return it to real folk. So, how did that work out?